Hoe.



B. O. DAHL.

HOE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 13, 1914.

1 1 22,4184. Patented-Dec. 29, 1914.

THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. FHOTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON. D, C.

pnrrian snares rarnnrorrion BEBE NT O. DAT-IL, OF VIROQUA, WISCONSIN. I

HOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed July 13, 1914. Serial No. 850,800.

To all 2071 am it may concern Be it known that I, BERENT O. DAHL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Viroqua, in the county of Vernon, State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoes, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to hoes, and it has for its object to provide a hoe which shall be so constructed as to be much more convenient and effective in usethan the hoes constructed in ordinary manner enabling the work to be done much faster and better.

With this and other objects in View which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood the same consists essentially in a hoe blade having its body portion centrally cut away and a slightly rounded portion provided with an effective cutting edge, the corners at each side of said edge being rounded. The opposite blade portion being also provided with relative angularly disposed straight edges and an intermediate arch shaped edge and being particularly adapted for a light weight hoe to remain free from clogging of earth, and to easily .penetrate the ground, which will facilitate the operation and increase the eliiciency of.

the hoe.

Another object of the invention is to have the side portions or corners of the blade rounded and adapted for removing weeds grown close to plants, without the danger as with hoes having sharp corners cutting or of injuring the plant.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the improved construction and arrangements of parts which will be hereafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings there has been shown a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being however understood, that-no limitations is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited. but that further changes, alterations, and modifications within the scope of the invention may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a rear elevation view of the hoe. Fig. 2 is a perspective side elevation view thereof showing the blade in combination with the shank. Fig. 3 is. a transverse sectional View. of the hoe blade taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the construction in details the hoe consists of a blade or plate 1 having itscentral portion cutaway as at 2 and 3,

the purpose thereof being to reduce the Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

the greater extent sharpened to provide cutting elements, said cutting edge being slightly rounded for the purpose of enabling the hoe to more easily penetrate the ground. The opposite section or portion 6 of the blade 1 is designed with straight and substantially right angular disposed cutting edges 7 and 8 and an intermediate arch shaped edge 9 which are in like manner sharpened as the edge 5 on the rounded por- 1 tion t and are provided for the purpose of cutting through theground that may fall throughthe opening 2 and 3' and partly be thrown against the inside edges 7 and 8 of the'blade portion 6 and thus present a mini mum amount of resistance to said blade portion. A narrow strip or stay 10 shown in dotted lines is retained as a part of blade 1 if preferred to extend across the central opening for the purpose of enabling a thin light blade to withstand more strain when in actual use. The side portions or corners 11 and 12 of the blade 1 are rounded for removing weeds grown close to the plants without the danger as with hoes having sharp corners of cutting off or injuring the plants. The shank 13 and socket lei are of ordinary design and construction.

Having thus described the invention what I claim is new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1 1. A hoe comprising a blade having a slightly rounded cutting edge, the body portion of said blade being centrally cut away and having relatively angular-1y disposed straight edges and an intermediate arch shaped edge forming the upper margin of said aperture adjacent the shank substancorners at each side of said edge being round- T.

ed, the body portion of. said blade being In testimony whereof I afliX my signature centrally cut away leaving the greater eX- in presence or" two Witnesses. tent of the central cut away portion next to the shank, and angularly disposed BERENT DAHL' straight cutting edges forming the upper Witnesses:

margin of said cut away portion adjacent J. HENRY BENNETT,

the shank substantially as described. A. HEINZ.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

